Corny Quotes

For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.

You know, not to sound corny or nuthin', but I felt like a fighter comin' up, man. I felt like, you know, I'm being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

Let us dig our furrow in the fields of the commonplace.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life.

It has a sound and rational circulating medium, a real and definite representative of wealth.

I didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny.

What we now call the browser is whatever defines the web. What fits in the browser is the World Wide Web and a number of trivial standards to handle that so that the content comes.

And, so yeah, I'll always want to work in independent films because you're not forced into a category or a formula.

I try not to observe myself in the process of composing a poem because I don't want to come up with a formula, which I would then be unscrupulous in using.

Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.

If I can't find a theme, I can't make a film anyone else will feel. I can't laugh at intellectual humor. I'm just corny enough to like to have a story hit me over the heart.

The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the stories to tell - but they're all formula.

Anabolic steroids were not banned until after the 72 Olympics.

A lot of political music to me can be rather pedantic and corny, and when it's done right - like Bruce Springsteen or Jackson Browne or great satire from Randy Newman, there's nothing better.

As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.

It's perfectly okay if you don't understand every single one of them. For one thing, I make a lot of corny jokes, and you have to be 40 years old to get some of them.

I had to try and find a way to express happiness without sounding corny.

After Watergate, which happened when I was in college, I became increasingly inspired by journalism as a way to change the world. It sounds corny, but to wake the public up, to serve a higher cause.

The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke.

When you are a professional sportsman all the guys are great competitors in the top 50.

At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.

Of course it's trivial, but then most things are.

I never really thought about becoming a professional musician.

I'm a big 'American Idol' watcher, and sometimes I like to watch 'America's Got Talent.' Those are big, corny admissions, but sometimes it's so fun to see those kids really sing their hearts out.

You know I've had work banned.

Scripts are corny and predictable. Real life is always better.

The real question is what to live for. And I can't answer it. Except another one of your records. And another chance for me to write. Art for art's sake, corny as that sounds.

Playing a fashion designer could be the bane of my existence because I am married to a fashion designer.

I'm trying to learn how to tap into the power of my own being. I know it sounds corny.

I know this is kind of corny, but we thought about renewing our vows again because I think my mom would really love it if we did that in Arkansas, where I came from.

It's like taking over This Is Your Life from Eamonn Andrews - you just open your mouth and hope you sound like yourself. That's all you can possibly do.

I realize I never stand out in a room unless I'm feeling balanced, centered and happy. It sounds really corny but it's very, very true.

I know it sounds a bit corny, but I do think that beauty and sexiness come from within.

In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial.

Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic.

High Noon is a pretty corny movie.

I write songs like "The Sweetest Love." Of course I'm a little cheesy. Love is cheesy. Love is corny. But it's also the greatest feeling in the whole world.

Every corny thing that's said about living with nature - being in harmony with the earth, feeling the cycle of the seasons - happens to be true.

Endeavors that help me satisfy you, my goddess of desire, pleasure, and corny one-liners.

Psychiatrists always say, Oh, we're very professional. I use exercise as my medication.

It's perfectly okay to fail. It sounds corny, but it truly is about the journey.

It sounds corny to say, but the theater is sacred; something transcendent can occur, and when it does, everyone grows. It's a true communion.

I'm just corny enough to like to have a story hit me over the heart.

There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.

Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.

My daughter is my greatest gift and, not to be corny, but my greatest teacher.

Maybe I'm corny, but I'm a big believer in second chances.

I am consciously trying not to make it sound Celtic or African.